Abstract: Have you been ill recently? Did your doctor give you antibiotics? Do you wonder how they worked? Join us to explore the escalating arms race between the bacteria that attack us and the antibiotics we use to fight them.”
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We all have contact with antibiotics at some point in our lives. They are amazing medicines that have saved millions of humans and animals from bacterial infections since their discovery. But those deadly bacteria haven’t stayed still; they are constantly evolving and becoming resistant to our antibiotics. How do we stay one step ahead of these changes? Can we even keep up?
Join three fascinating speakers to explore antibiotics with talks and activities. John Fishwick is an expert in medicine for dairy herds. Dorothy Buck is a mathematician who has worked with medical scientists to understand the maths behind antibiotic function. Donal Murphy trained as a veterinary surgeon and now works at National Office for Animal Health and is an expert on antibiotic policy in animals and humans.